Chapter 32 – Pawkins’s in Jermyn Street

John and his patron

drowsy god

The earl is said to fight with the drowsy god after dinner. The drowsy god likely refers to the god personified by sleep, Hypnos. [KD 2006]

Sources: Cassell’s Dictionary of Classical Mythology.

Dives and Lazarus

Trollope refers to this story in a comparison between the offices of John Eames and Adolphus Crosbie: the Income-tax Office is as distant from the General Committee Office as Lazarus is from Dives. The parable of Dives and Lazarus, found in Luke 16:19-31, is about a rich man (in Latin, Dives) and the poor man (Lazarus) who lived outside of the rich man’s house begging for a crumb of food. In the afterlife, a chasm separates Dives (in hell) from Lazarus (in heaven). [KD & RR 2006; rev. 2011]